The Swedish government plans to halt adoptions of children from Vietnam citing concerns over corruption and fears that the child’s best interests don’t always come first.
Sweden, along with Denmark and New Zealand, achieved the highest score in a new survey ranking 180 countries on perceived levels of public-sector corruption.
Four out of ten local officials claim to have been offered bribes to secure alcohol licences. Six out ten claim that many licences should never have been issued, a new survey from Svenska Dagbladet shows.
Prosecutors have dropped an investigation into allegations that Fredrik Reinfeldt's one-time closest aide, Ulrica Schenström, had accepted bribes when a journalist paid for her drinks at a bar in Stockholm.
Hungary will probe alleged improprieties in a 2001 tender for fighter jets that was awarded to the Anglo-Swedish consortium BAE Systems and Saab, Defence Minister Imre Szekeres said Monday.
Jämtland district court today convicted county governor Maggi Mikaelsson of accepting bribes. Kenneth Eriksson, president of forestry company SCA, was also convicted of bribery.
Social Democrats in Norrköping are accused of electoral fraud, after a party worker was allegedly seen stuffing voting slips in to envelopes on election day.
The Social Democratic chief executive of Malmö municipality faced a criminal court on Monday charged with accepting bribes. Ilmar Reepalu and two other men accepted a free trip to a safari park in South Africa, something prosecutors claim was corruption.
Swedish foreign minister Jan Eliasson has said it would be regrettable if the Swedish government had prioritized Swedish business interests over acting to stop corruption in the United Nations' Oil-for-Food program. His comments came after it emerged that Sweden knew of illegal payments from companies to the Iraqi regime, but doing nothing to stop them.
Some 14 Swedish firms are under investigation for violating the United Nations’ sanctions under the Oil-for-Food Programme by paying Iraq illegal fees to do business in the country. Now the Swedish government is being drawn into the fray for reportedly knowing about the illegal payoffs and not stopping them.
Sweden has become a “democratic one-party state” in which the Social Democrats have used their power of patronage to politicise the civil service and government agencies, the opposition Alliance has alleged in a new report. The four conservative-liberal parties used the report to call for more transparent procedures for appointing top bureaucrats.
Swedish companies accused of paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s regime as part of the scandal-hit UN Oil for Food programme are to be investigated by prosecutors in Stockholm.
Swedish companies Volvo and Atlas Copco have been accused by a United Nations investigator of paying bribes to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, in contravention of international sanctions against the country.
SSU, the troubled youth wing of the Social Democratic Party, has elected a new leader. Anna Sjödin was unanimously elected at the organisation’s annual conference in Linköping.
The chief executive of TeliaSonera, Anders Igel, is being threatened with prosecution for bribery by Swedish authorities after he invited 200 business leaders and civil servants to the Abba musical Mamma Mia in Stockholm.
Ung Vänster, the Left Party's youth organization, registered a false number of members in order to get inflated state subsidies, it has been alleged. According to Dagens Nyheter, the organization knowingly cheated the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs by presenting 11,000 more members than it actually has.
Sweden is the sixth least corrupt country in the world, it was revealed this week - news that seemed to come as a surprise to the press after the scandals at Skandia and Systembolaget. But as if to underline that even Sweden is not immune from dodgy dealing, a court decided that eleven million crowns that a man had admitted accepting in bribes could pass to his children.
